I read this post by Ishilove: https://www.nairaland.com/8209708/how-man-helped-accident-victim and wanted to comment this: avoid being a victim of your kindness but it may be stomached with a wrong conception.

Here is my story:

The help I did in 2017 to FMC that cost my three days? I rushed the woman who's just been hit by a kinda hit and run..and the issue of police report started. Good Samaritan me drove with my Bolt vehicle to the station and after narrating, what came out from the Police Constable was "Guilty Conscience. God works in mysterious ways."

The rhetoric hit me like a letter bomb. I stuttered to explain myself better, and was finger-signalled to meet was caricatured by another officer who asked me what happened again, in an attempt to add his own mockery as an end-remark....which he did: "Una no dey ever change this story? Pray she lives or you are in for a long ride."

I wan die that day. I explained that I was with the military (if it would make a difference) and I knew the law and all that. And why would I hit her, come to the station and deny it? Glaring to me, the first Constable who was a woman responded to my rhetorical question with a scorn again: "guiltttttttty conscienccccce ooooooo."

I gazed at her, consumed by a sense of hollowness. And then, from behind, a voice echoed: "'I was in the force, I was in the force's, so what? Make we run? So you want to threaten us or what after nearly killing someone?"

The female constable responded again: "no, he wants to beat me. Na so dem dey"


I was told to write a statement of what happened but this officer won't let me write my own narration. He'd be telling me how to write it if I wanted to be out of there quickly, what what he was dictating was implicating which I refused...and he resolved to teach me a lesson "so far na en station where I dey."

"Oga, I am the one who is trying to save a life, why do you want to implicate me? Would it have been better I left her to bleed to death? Where did I go wrong?"


I demanded to speak to my lawyer or the DPO and they laughed, mimicked scornfully and laughed harder.


Ok, both of my phone's was siezed...and my smartphone was where I had some contacts who could use their position to help me out of this...plus my CO then who was serving in that state. But this people gave me my Itel button phone. I politely requested for the smart one and they bluntly refused giving clumsy excuses.


I sat behind the counter until my black trouser wore out. And it was a Friday. One officer who's been observing for a while came to me and asked what my case was. I explained to him. I couldn't adequately express myself as tears threatened to accompany my words...but I did. After he calmed me, he asked who could corroborate my story and I told him. He told me that the officers wanted the DPO to leave so I could be in cell until Monday when they'd revisit my case. My heart was just shattering anyhow. I told him I needed to speak to the DPO, then my smartphone to call my people, plus the hospital.


They (without this new good officer) took me to the DPO and the black devil trying to implicate me before started speaking for me, rephrasing my speech but instead of adding sugar, they added salt to the injury making it look like I wanted to outsmart them. I requested to speak for myself and the officer who brought me in told me to shut up.


If I hadn't given the Nurse in charge of the accident victim my number, e for don bi for me o.


The DPO told the officer to let me talk. I narrated everything again, and didn't leave any stone unturned, even the few pebbles about trying to implicate me. She asked for the hospital to be called. And I gave the number.


At that moment, they couldn't reach the doctor. But the accident victim's family were present in the hospital. The DPO told them to take me to the hospital. When we were out of her office, this officer insisted he'd cuff me before I am allowed to enter their vehicle...of course which I refused. I SERVED NIGERIA TOO AND WONT BE TREATED LIKE A CRIMINAL! And that by law, it was false imprisonment, and against my human rights. At this moment, swears, I was ready for resistance. I spoke loudly that I am not a criminal and won't be subjected lesser as a toutish one. I also told him to his face that after I am exonerated, I will make sure he pays for all these (and he thought I was joking).

Amidst all the back-and-forth, the hospital reached out to the DPO and she promptly called us back to her office. The woman victim was conscious and verified that I did not harm her. She mentioned that everyone else abandoned her while she was bleeding, and I was the only one who came to her aid. It was being broadcasted for everyone to hear. She expressed her dissatisfaction with the way I was treated and questioned the reason behind my arrest.

The DPO, in my presence, ordered I should be released unconditionally and apologized.

But can an apology heal the trauma?


Could you believe after the DPO left, this godforsaken demon asked me to pay bail or he'd keep me in cell till tomorrow. Omo, I screamed "over my dead body" subconsciously and audibly. And he was like "hand go touch you soon no worry."


Anyways I left after deliberate delay tactics of about two hours. I could not go back to the hospital because the whole event made me fall very sick. But the accident victim lady visited after recovery. She's visited a sick me because my mental health was affected. I couldn't even meet my weekly sums from the Bolt. Two days after the whole event, I tried to drive and my eyes was still seeing rotating images so I had to hug pillows again until I felt much better.

About that officer, story for another day.



But you see me now?


I refuse to be from Samaria anymore. It nearly cost my life.

All their efforts were to implicate the helper for bribery sake, not to aid the treatment of the accident victim.

I see the police of this country as the champion of victimisation in all circumstances. I wonder why they are called friends.

Some people who refuse to help don't just want trouble, they aren't wicked.

But if you insist they are wicked, it's still your business.

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Your story is so touching. Nigeria Police are something else...Majority of our officers are nothing but criminals. Their target all the time is to implicate someone just to milk the person.

You are so lucky the woman is alive to set you free, otherwise only God knows what would have happened to you.

Nigeria police are best in bullying suspect, they will want to be the accuse, prosecutor and also the judge.

immortalcrown:
All their efforts were to implicate the helper for bribery sake, not to aid the treatment of the accident victim.

I see the police of this country as the champion of victimisation in all circumstances. I wonder why they are called friends.

They tend to earn big on cases like this from both sides ( the person in cell, the family of the victim). It's horrible.

chatinent:
They tend to earn big on cases like this from both sides ( the person in cell, the family of the victim). It's horrible.

The police is your friend enemy.

madridguy:
Your story is so touching. Nigeria Police are something else...Majority of our officers are nothing but criminals. Their target all the time is to implicate someone just to milk the person.

You are so lucky the woman is alive to set you free, otherwise only God knows what would have happened to you.

Nigeria police are best in bullying suspect, they will want to be the accuse, prosecutor and also the judge.

Yes, gbamsolutely.


And it's because nothing really happens to them after all these criminal acts they do. Even the ones caught on camera and televised are reinstated quietly but urged to go on a low, or reassigned.

immortalcrown:
The police is your friend enemy.

On my way to Makurdi last year January, a Toyota Hilux double-crossed our vehicle (I used a public transport). Men with rifles jumped down. My heart skipped a beat. It turned out they were JTFs with the Customs officers.

I prayed for a lesser evil and God seemed to answer and allowed it be them. Imagine it were armed robbers or kidnappers, or Killer Herdsmen. News were the latter kill on the spot.

Chief, the police is not your friend. It's not your enemy either. Una no suppose get any relationship even for an enemy. It's two lines that never meet.

They do this because they are the arm of gov that prosecute, I guess.

Nigerian police officers are never your friend and before you can find the literate and reasonable ones, situation on ground might have gotten worse than it should have...

I made a complaint on behalf of my boss about a stolen bike last year December at a police station and to my utmost suprise none of the officers on duty could write a report about a stolen item.

I had to help the most literate one who finally attended to me out word for word till he could finish writing it, I bought the pen he used too. When we were done with everything he asked for money, I told him he should be the one to pay me for helping him. The look he gave me ehnnnn

All they ever care about is money....

Stories like these just makes my blood boil

Tokskob2008:
Nigerian police officers are never your friend and before you can find the literate and reasonable ones, situation on ground might have gotten worse than it should have...

I made a complaint on behalf of my boss about a stolen bike last year December at a police station and to my utmost suprise none of the officers on duty could write a report about a stolen item.

I had to help the most literate one who finally attended to me out word for word till he could finish writing it, I bought the pen he used too. When we were done with everything he asked for money, I told him he should be the one to pay me for helping him. The look he gave me ehnnnn

All they ever care about is money....

They are not trained.

Don't get me wrong. I literally mean they are NOT trained. Those who train them aren't trained too, so where would the training come from?

Ishilove:
Stories like these just makes my blood boil

Thanks for your post. It was needed at this time

Nigeria has made people become monsters against their will. Imagine if you are in a situation where you can help save an accident victim and you couldn't cos you are afraid of your own life and that person dies, imagine the trauma and guilt you will genuinely feel.

Imagine if you were the victim and people also can't help cos they are afraid and you see yourself dying slowly.

In Nigeria, your "good life" can take a turn for the worst in a twinkle of an eye, all it just takes is being at the right place at the wrong time. God help you that you are just an ordinary person without big money and connections then you are finished. A lot of lives have been ruined due to circumstances like this.

I'm sorry to say this but I can't live in a 3rd world country again no matter how much is on the table except I don't have a choice. The risk is to high for my liking

It's a reflection of the Bible Story of the 'Good Samaritan'.....those who avoided to help did so to save themselves from trouble. Nothing new under the sun.

Ok

Hmmmmmm

Bro Chatinet,no be lie you talk,cuz no body go like to go down for simply trying to help another person.........But here in Nigeria,your kindness can lead you to jail and nobody go wan hear and know wetin happen..

Las las,both our police and our judicial system is highly corrupt and decayed,no doubt..

People (especially Nigerians) often take advantage of kind, self sacrificing, and empathetic people. It’s no surprise when someone with these qualities eventually change and become the opposite of who they once were.

The simple reason is that they have been repeatedly exploited or once severely exploited , leaving them wary of rendering help for fear of what happened in the past.

Once beaten, twice shy. But in this case, once seriously beaten, permanently shy.

The Nigerian Police is not your friend and never will.

As for me I stick to this:

Evil is as the wind, ever shifting and unseen. Trust no man with haste, but discern the heart by its deeds. For when thine eyes behold evil, remember it always, for an enemy, once revealed, shall never be thy friend.

Una wey get motor de see plenty things o.

Shey I no go continue with my leggedis Benz like this?

chatinent:
I read this post by Ishilove: https://www.nairaland.com/8209708/how-man-helped-accident-victim and wanted to comment this: avoid being a victim of your kindness but it may be stomached with a wrong conception.

Here is my story:

The help I did in 2017 to FMC that cost my three days? I rushed the woman who's just been hit by a kinda hit and run..and the issue of police report started. Good Samaritan me drove with my Bolt vehicle to the station and after narrating, what came out from the Police Constable was "Guilty Conscience. God works in mysterious ways."

The rhetoric hit me like a letter bomb. I stuttered to explain myself better, and was finger-signalled to meet was caricatured by another officer who asked me what happened again, in an attempt to add his own mockery as an end-remark....which he did: "Una no dey ever change this story? Pray she lives or you are in for a long ride."

I wan die that day. I explained that I was with the military (if it would make a difference) and I knew the law and all that. And why would I hit her, come to the station and deny it? Glaring to me, the first Constable who was a woman responded to my rhetorical question with a scorn again: "guiltttttttty conscienccccce ooooooo."

I gazed at her, consumed by a sense of hollowness. And then, from behind, a voice echoed: "'I was in the force, I was in the force's, so what? Make we run? So you want to threaten us or what after nearly killing someone?"

The female constable responded again: "no, he wants to beat me. Na so dem dey"


I was told to write a statement of what happened but this officer won't let me write my own narration. He'd be telling me how to write it if I wanted to be out of there quickly, what what he was dictating was implicating which I refused...and he resolved to teach me a lesson "so far na en station where I dey."

"Oga, I am the one who is trying to save a life, why do you want to implicate me? Would it have been better I left her to bleed to death? Where did I go wrong?"


I demanded to speak to my lawyer or the DPO and they laughed, mimicked scornfully and laughed harder.


Ok, both of my phone's was siezed...and my smartphone was where I had some contacts who could use their position to help me out of this...plus my CO then who was serving in that state. But this people gave me my Itel button phone. I politely requested for the smart one and they bluntly refused giving clumsy excuses.


I sat behind the counter until my black trouser wore out. And it was a Friday. One officer who's been observing for a while came to me and asked what my case was. I explained to him. I couldn't adequately express myself as tears threatened to accompany my words...but I did. After he calmed me, he asked who could corroborate my story and I told him. He told me that the officers wanted the DPO to leave so I could be in cell until Monday when they'd revisit my case. My heart was just shattering anyhow. I told him I needed to speak to the DPO, then my smartphone to call my people, plus the hospital.


They (without this new good officer) took me to the DPO and the black devil trying to implicate me before started speaking for me, rephrasing my speech but instead of adding sugar, they added salt to the injury making it look like I wanted to outsmart them. I requested to speak for myself and the officer who brought me in told me to shut up.


If I hadn't given the Nurse in charge of the accident victim my number, e for don bi for me o.


The DPO told the officer to let me talk. I narrated everything again, and didn't leave any stone unturned, even the few pebbles about trying to implicate me. She asked for the hospital to be called. And I gave the number.


At that moment, they couldn't reach the doctor. But the accident victim's family were present in the hospital. The DPO told them to take me to the hospital. When we were out of her office, this officer insisted he'd cuff me before I am allowed to enter their vehicle...of course which I refused. I SERVED NIGERIA TOO AND WONT BE TREATED LIKE A CRIMINAL! And that by law, it was false imprisonment, and against my human rights. At this moment, swears, I was ready for resistance. I spoke loudly that I am not a criminal and won't be subjected lesser as a toutish one. I also told him to his face that after I am exonerated, I will make sure he pays for all these (and he thought I was joking).

Amidst all the back-and-forth, the hospital reached out to the DPO and she promptly called us back to her office. The woman victim was conscious and verified that I did not harm her. She mentioned that everyone else abandoned her while she was bleeding, and I was the only one who came to her aid. It was being broadcasted for everyone to hear. She expressed her dissatisfaction with the way I was treated and questioned the reason behind my arrest.

The DPO, in my presence, ordered I should be released unconditionally and apologized.

But can an apology heal the trauma?


Could you believe after the DPO left, this godforsaken demon asked me to pay bail or he'd keep me in cell till tomorrow. Omo, I screamed "over my dead body" subconsciously and audibly. And he was like "hand go touch you soon no worry."


Anyways I left after deliberate delay tactics of about two hours. I could not go back to the hospital because the whole event made me fall very sick. But the accident victim lady visited after recovery. She's visited a sick me because my mental health was affected. I couldn't even meet my weekly sums from the Bolt. Two days after the whole event, I tried to drive and my eyes was still seeing rotating images so I had to hug pillows again until I felt much better.

About that officer, story for another day.



But you see me now?


I refuse to be from Samaria anymore. It nearly cost my life.

You did it for God.

Police wahala.

Nigeria we hail thee!

9ja police na devil

Scary as all these stories are, I'll still help when I can but maybe more cautious

B

Story

Please don't make the officer's case a story for another day. I guess this is the reason why in recent times I was told to stop putting as discussed in my bank transfers as it could be implicating. Maybe I will change it to charity going forward.

The story in that other thread did not really add up and i lost interest when the writer tried to whip up etnic sentiments by creating victim mentality.

The writer claimed that the rider ran into a heap of sand and the bike slide and hit his father's vehicle and caused a dent. The Police must have seen how improbable the story was and that prompted them to carry out further investigations which must have proven the fellow's dad was the cause of the accident.

Another issue that disgusted me so much in his troy was that they are being victimised because they were Igbos.
Why bring tribe into an accident situation. Why play the victim card when you know an accident can happen to anyone irrespective of their tribe or religion.

It pains me that the writer of that story is a very wicked person that is trying to poison Nigerians from helping accident victims forgetting that he himself or his family members could be a victim of an accident.

Nigerians should not let anyone disquarage them from helping those in need

Very pathetic, honestly the people who branded Nigeria as a zoo and banana Republic didn't lie.

Imagine police officers who are trained to protect lives are still thr ones who want to implicate you, just because or their selfish gain.

Sometimes, I begin to wonder why I'm born in this god forsaken country, every area in Nigeria is very corrupt, I tell people, nobody should believe in Nigeria, it can't move forward...

If I'm given an opportunity to rule this country for just 1month, I will retire all police officers immediately and cancel everything called police, they are part of the people who led this country to what it is today, aiding election riggers and the rest...

@OP, I want to hear your other story that the police was sacked